Summary
Matt Brown is a Founder and seasoned SRE/DevOps practitioner with 20 years’ experience helping teams build reliable, human-centered on-call practices and distributed systems. He founded On-Call Optimizer to turn on-call from a morale drain into a growth opportunity, embedding years of operational expertise into an accessible SaaS product. Through MKMBA Ltd he provides consulting in SRE leadership, architecture and technology strategy while nurturing continual software development and validation. Matt’s approach emphasizes sustainable, long-term value—eschewing VC pressure to preserve product quality and team well-being. A University of Waikato computer science graduate based in Cambridge, NZ, he combines hands-on technical depth with coaching to make on-call a learning experience developers actually enjoy. Practical, iterative improvements and respect for personal constraints are core to how he designs schedules and systems that scale.
20 years of coding experience
BCMS, Computer Science, BCMS, Computer Science at The University of Waikato